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title: Isaiah 42:24 (JPS 1917) — He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not wal… · tree and pragmatics
description: He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto His law. Who acts: we, Jacob. Isaiah 42:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 42:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto His law.

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**Who acts:** we, Jacob · **What happens:** sin, not walk, be · **To what, where:** ways

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This is Isaiah 42:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Jacob), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:ISA:936
# text = He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto His law.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
2	against	against	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	obedient	obedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sin** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against whom=Maleficiary |
| 2 | **not** **walk** | would | Jacob |  |  | ways |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | Jacob |  |  |  |  | unto LORD's law; obedient *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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מִֽי־נָתַ֨ן לִמְשִׁסָּ֧היַעֲקֹ֛ב וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל לְבֹזְזִ֖ים הֲל֣וֹא יְהוָ֑ה ז֚וּ חָטָ֣אנוּ ל֔וֹ וְלֹֽא־אָב֤וּ בִדְרָכָיו֙ הָל֔וֹךְ וְלֹ֥א שָׁמְע֖וּ בְּתוֹרָתֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 42:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.24/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.934/)
2. [Did not the LORD?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.935/)
3. **He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto His law.**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:936` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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